A Dead Irons Look: Covers and Jae Lee Sketches

Dynamite has released the first two covers to February’s Dead Irons #1 and has provided Newsarama with Jae Lee’s sketches of the five-issue miniseries’ characters. Click through the gallery at the right for all the images.

Written by James Kuhoric and illustrated by Jason Alexander (with covers and character design by Lee), the story is described by Dynamite as:

Three bounty hunter siblings blaze a path of death and destruction
across the Old West. Traveling by moonlight, they rip criminals
screaming for mercy from their hiding places... but none is ever given.
Each bounty is torn, broken, and bled dry before being delivered dead
and payment collected in gold - no silver.

The Irons are the most feared bounty hunting killers in the west, but
that fear isn't based on them being the fastest with a pistol or rifle.
It's because they're the walking dead.

A lone tortured soul tracks them with vengeance and salvation driving
him to end the curse upon his family. Those who he rescues call him
savior, but those who look upon his twisted and scarred face call him
monster.

Silas Irons is the only hope his brothers and sister have of salvation
from the abominations they've become. But even the purity of his heart
can't stop the unnatural rage and bloodlust building in his diseased
soul.

A black curse turned these siblings into monsters but deep rooted and
twisted family history made them into the worst kind of horrors.

Dead Irons

- 99 innocent souls

- 6 undead monsters

- 1 shot to save the world.

"I've been working on this story for nearly 20 years,” Kuhoric says. “I
know the characters better than some real friends and I understand what
demons drive them. At its heart, the tale is about the transformation
of people both physically and mentally into monsters and the path the
takes them there is filled with unspeakable horrors. Dead Irons
is a story of damnation and retribution. It highlights the very thin
line between giving in to your demons to become a monster and fighting
your own inner beasts to do what's right."

"Jim came up with one of those once in a lifetime concepts and Jason
sold his soul to draw like this,” Lee added. “I'm incredibly proud to
be working with them.”

Alexander concluded, "This is seriously the darkest book I've ever
worked on… it's so well thought out, it really feels like a classic
Sergio Leone' film, with werewolves and vampires. I've never gotten to
draw this kind of story before and it's some of the best work of my
career."